While initial outrage over the incident focused on Milley’s alleged act to undermine the president, the flack is now returning to the sender
Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Like many books about the Trump administration before it, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s latest on the cacophony in the last White House has stirred up a bit of controversy — this time surrounding a reported incident in which Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley called up a leading general in the Chinese military, informing his counterpart that the outgoing president would not attack the country in his waning days in charge.
The calls reportedly came after Milley learned last October that Chinese officials were worried about a preemptive attack amid an escalation of the trade war. The first contact took place days before the election, and the second occurred two days after the insurrection, when Milly was worried that Trump would go “rogue.
How has the Pentagon responded? In a press briefing, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed the conversation between Milley and Li in January, saying that the pair conferred “in order to maintain strategic stability.” When asked about calls for his firing and a treason charge, the spokesperson dismissively said “oh my goodness,” adding that these calls are a “function of the job,” suggesting that the reporting exaggerated the extreme nature of Milley’s outreach.
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